List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union


This is a list of known mass shootings that have occurred in the Soviet Union.

List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union

DateLocationRepublicDeadInjuredTotalDescription
PetrogradRSFSR81018Kuusinen Club Incident: Eight members of the Finnish Communist Party were murdered in their office.
Ivankovo, Kostroma GovernorateRSFSR11819Grachov murder case: Grigory Grachov fatally shot 11 people and injured eight others.
PrigorodnyRSFSR505Prigorodny forest murders: Alexander Labutkin shot and killed five people in a forest.
PrigorodnyRSFSR404Prigorodny forest murders: Alexander Labutkin shot and killed four people in a forest.
ArkhangelskRSFSR246: Nikolai Gavrilovich Romanov fatally shot two people and wounded three others.
LyaminoRSFSR7613Mikhail Tselousov fatally shot seven people and wounded six others.
VaindlooESSR707Theodore Matvievsky fatally shot seven people.
Malyy MelikRSFSR617Yuri Ilyasov fatally shot six people and wounded one.
AlmatyKSSR224Nikolai Kendenov shot and killed one person and wounded two others before being killed.
26/27 September 1968KurskRSFSR141125: Victor Korshunov and Yury Surovtsev fatally shot 13 people and wounded 11. Korshunov was killed by Surovtsev.
TitovkaRSFSR347Yuri Gaev fatally shot three soldiers and wounded three others.
KuressaareESSR404An unknown soldier fatally shot three people and himself.
OtradnyRSFSR11516Mikhail Dorofeev and Alexander Shurygin killed 11 people and injured five.
Permsky DistrictRSFSR51520Alexander Zhidkov and Mikhail Veretelnik killed four people and wounded 14 others. Zhidkov was injured by the police.
LetipeaESSR111324Letipea massacre: An unknown soldier killed 10 and wounded more than 13 people and then shot himself.
LeningradRSFSR639Anatoly Fedorenko killed six cadets and wounded two. He was also injured by one of the fatally wounded cadets.
BakuAzSSR404Zia Mudarov shot and killed three people, including Arif Heydarov, before committing suicide.
ElkhotovoRSFSR8210: Bandits fatally shot eight people and injured two.
Leningrad OblastRSFSR808: Arturas Sakalauskas killed eight people.
Novohorivka, Zaporizhzhia OblastUkSSR505Anatoly Onoprienko shot and killed a family of five while they were sleeping in a car before lighting it on fire.
PatrikeyevoRSFSR11213Vitaly Semenikhin and Muradov killed eight soldiers, three warrant officers and wounded two other soldiers. Muradov subsequently committed suicide, and Semenikhin was caught and sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life imprisonment.